Newsroom

Newsroom

Posted Sep 24, 2006 by Jon Wood

After a lengthy hiatus, MMORPG.com presents the newest chapter, Chapter 8, in Jon Wood's serialized fiction, Neverdie. Don't worry, if you've missed the beginning, you can like to the previous seven chapters from the feature:

Rowan stirred back to consciousness slowly. Her head ached, and her arms and legs steadfastly refused to obey her commands, instead, remaining still and unmoving on the bed that she was laying in. She tried to speak, just a word to let someone know that she was awake, but it seemed as though her vocal chords were as traitorous as her limbs. Slowly, the one thing she had left, her faint sliver of consciousness, slipped away, and she returned to the darkness that had covering her since her battle with the insect-beast.

For Ash, the last two days had been both relieving, and extremely frustrating. When he had come across the scene of Rowan’s climactic battle, he had been both shocked and confused. What had been left of the “creature” was enough to tell the well-trained knight that whatever it was, it wasn’t a beast that was native to the area, or indeed to their own reality. His devout nature allowed him to identify the beast immediately as having come from the Hells. The thought, and the connotations, had sent chills down his spine. Ash had hoped that the small sage had been referring to the villagers when he warned that the elven woman was in danger. Instead, the appearance of this creature tells him that the danger is not only larger, but that it effects everyone.